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desexualized

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It's that children in American culture have been desexualized.

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It's that children in American culture have been desexualized.

Example sentences

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It's that children in American culture have been desexualized.

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Raj is an Indian male who is desexualized.

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Sheldon is a white male who is desexualized.

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Leonard is a white male who is desexualized.

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They are a form of ritually desexualized pornography.

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Asian men historically have been desexualized.

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But you could also argue that in the context of our Puritanical baggage, our slut shaming, our last fifty-plus years of Madmen-esque workplace sexual discrimination, we need a period of overly desexualized workplaces before we can shed our Puritanical baggage.

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Typically you expect to see mixed white/Black couples, Muslim women (never men), a shortage of east-Asian people (usually women, presented as casual but desexualized professionals), rarely Indians (and never the Indian Family, marking a stark contrast to actual Desi ads), and everybody between 27 and 35 (the absence of children you're not supposed to think about, and old people might hold bad opinions).

Quote examples

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The phrase "white boys" in general seems to be mostly desexualized.

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And I'm not even sure "desexualized" is the right word.

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"Desexualized" to me would mean that they weren't even seen as people who are interested in sex or relationships -- that is, their status as having sexuality at all was minimized and never touched upon -- which was clearly not the case for either of them.

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How do you use desexualized in a sentence?

It's that children in American culture have been desexualized.